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Volvo V90 Cross Country review

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It's the Volvo V90 Cross Country, the slightly more SUV-ish version of the car we crowned the best estate car in the world.

Just like an Audi Allroad, then, there's taller ride height (by 65mm) and lots of dark plastic trim adorning the exterior. Volvo calls it ?charcoal'.

For those genuinely wishing to off road, it provides protection to the painted bodywork. For those who won't (a far greater proportion of buyers, we imagine), it shows the car's all-terrain potential, seemingly half the appeal of cars like these.

But while the Allroad is arguably the identifying car for the premium-crossover-estate sub-genre, Volvo actually got there first, launching its first Cross Country - a V70 estate - in 1997.

Certainly is. Much like the standard V90 range, you've a choice of two engines. Both are 2-litre four-cylinder turbodiesels, the D4 possessing 190bhp, the D5 coming with 235bhp and something called ?PowerPulse' to reduce turbo lag and make power delivery smoother.

Unlike other V90s, both engines come with all-wheel drive in the Cross Country, so there's no chance of your rufty tufty-looking V90 coming merely front-driven. We like that. There's also an Off Road mode for the drive select and hill descent control, though unfortunately we didn't get out of London to test that out.

Read more on Top Gear.
 

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